Posts Tagged Skylon

Image: The Skylon spaceplane docked with a space station. Credit: Reaction Engines Skylon Spaceplane: The Spacecraft of Tomorrow FEB 19, 2013 11:46 AM ET // BY MARKUS HAMMONDS It’s difficult not to be impressed by the towering rockets used around […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Skylon would do the job of a big rocket but operate like an airliner from a conventional runway A concept drawing of the Sabre engine with a series of pre-cooler modules 28 November 2012 Last updated at 03:10 ET Skylon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Fly me to the moon – on a plane By Mark Halper | November 28, 2012, 5:09 AM PST Engineers in Britain have passed a major milestone in the development of a plane that can fly into space, auguring an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Skylon Update: Big Bucks, Buck Rogers Posted by Doug Messier on October 4, 2012, at 5:15 am During a plenary session at the International Astronautic Federation conference in Naples on Wednesday, Reaction Engines Founding Director Alan Bond said that the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…